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Except you might be calculating the material, personnel, property costs also. The launch itself doesn't release that much, but everything leading up to the laun
by rosmax_1337 2y ago
Except you might be calculating the material, personnel, property costs also. The launch itself doesn't release that much, but everything leading up to the launch might.
I still disagree with the general sentiment though. Space is more important than most other pursuits.
- uberman 2y agoI don't disagree that space science is important. Space tourism on the other hand is a different thing in my opinion.
- geertj 2y ago> Space tourism on the other hand is a different thing in my opinion. Space tourism is funding part of the R&D required through for new space to be able to do exploration.
- geertj 2y ago> Except you might be calculating the material, personnel, property costs also. The launch itself doesn't release that much, but everything leading up to the launch might. Yup, and the supply chain for all of those. At scale, that should go down to a small fraction above the direct emissions (certainly not an order of magnitude more). And if this never becomes at-scale, then we don't have a problem anyway.